Thursday, April 5, 2012

PA Prompt Five From the past

Fragile


In 1622
Jamestown Massacre
Samuel Maycock and his wife
hid their infant daughter Sarah.
She survived.

In 1779
Martha Reed, her brother and friends
were on their way to pick berries.
Her brother shot, her friend tomahawked,
she outran her pursuer. *

 During WWII
James Shannon
was wounded
in the head by shrapnel.
He lived.

All my ancestors.
It’s funny to think
about how many times
one nearly never
existed.

* So far my geneoligist sister can't prove that Martha Reed Shannon was our ancestor but we grew up with this story as if it were our own, so I included it.

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